Micah Goodrich
Assistant Professor, English
mjgood@bu.edu
Specializations:
Trans studies
Queer studies
Premodern literature
Medieval literature
History of the body
Ideas of nature
Course idea:
None specified
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Alejandra Vela-Martínez
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish)
Specializations:
20th-21st Century Mexican Cultural Studies
Transnational mass culture, archives, feminine periodicals and literature
Diasporic and border feminine literature
their reception and preservation throughout Latin American Modernity
Course idea:
Open to collaborating on a topic related to formations of identity and/or popular culture
My research critically examines the construction of symbolic value in Latin American literature and culture, with a particular focus on Mexico, through the lens of Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies. I explore the creation of symbolic capital using two main approaches: historical research based on archival work with understudied materials, and critical readings informed by reception theory and affect theory to highlight biases in cultural consumption. My analyses question the institutionalized margins of official culture from a gendered perspective.
As a whole, my research questions the Latin American cultural field by examining how different "counter-archives," as I call them in my current book manuscript, illuminate literary and cultural history involving feminine writers and materials. I defend the need, within the Humanities, to celebrate the ways femininity has intervened in the public sphere, while rethinking the limits of what is considered Literature and Culture. This is a necessary step towards a reconceptualization of intellectual history based on feminized aesthetics that uncover numerous female and women writers, editors, and readers formerly excluded from the canon.
My interests lie at the intersection of Literary History, Women and Gender Studies, and the History of Material Culture. I challenge prevailing feminist historical perspectives that dismiss cultural products as too conservative or patriarchal, advocating for the recognition of diverse forms of feminine participation in the public sphere throughout history. This approach seeks to restore the agency of women and other feminine subjects in shaping their destinies.
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Alexandra Gold
Head Preceptor, Writing
alexandra_gold@fas.harvard.edu
Specializations:
Post—1945 American poetry and visual art
Writing / first-year composition
Popular culture
Course idea:
None specified
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Peng Yin
Assistant Professor of Ethics, Boston University
Specializations:
Religion and sexuality
Sexual ethics
Queer theology
Course idea:
Sexual ethics: a feminist-and-queer-centered attempt at thinking through contemporary conversations in sexual desire and pleasure, intimate violence, polyamory, sex work, pornography, as well as sex and technologies.
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Shoniqua Roach
Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Black Feminist Theory
Black Studies
Queer and Sexuality Studies
Performance Studies
Racial Capitalism
Course idea:
None specified
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Andrés Henao Castro
Assistant Professor, Political Science, UMass Boston
Specializations:
My research seeks to rethink the relationship between politics and aesthetics in relation to gender-differentiated colonial logics of capitalist accumulation. While focused on that question, I also want to reimagine the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, settler colonial critique, Marxism, queer of color critique, critical race theory, and poststructuralism.
Course idea:
None specified
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Hillary Chute
Distinguished Professor, English, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Visual culture and feminisms
Comics and graphic narratives
Contemporary literature
Course idea:
None specified
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Hilary Binda
Senior Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University
Specializations:
Carceral Studies
Queer/Feminist Studies
Course idea:
None specified
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Rani Neutill
Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Specializations:
Asian American Literature and Film
WOC memoir
Creative nonfiction
Course idea:
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Film - This course examines works across a range of genres by Asian-American writers, focusing on the intersection of race, gender formation, and sexuality. We will put conceptions of feminism, queerness, and LGBT identity in conversations about ethnicity, citizenship, power, activism, art and politics, representation, race and resistance and collective as well as individual histories. As a class that focuses on film and literature, we will close read texts as a means to discuss the politics of representation, how a text can inform the world and vice versa. In this class, we will create a space of community forged by respect and the understanding that marginalized voices have been historically de-centered. We will focus on the diversity of Asian American stories and move away from generalized, romanticized, and essentialized notions of Asian American identities.
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Wan Tang
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, Boston College
Specializations:
19th-21st-century Spain
the Spanish Civil War
Contemporary Spanish literature and visual culture
The fantastic and Gothic fiction
Monster theory
Aging studies, television studies, critical race and migration studies
The Asian diaspora
Course idea:
None specified
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Suzanne Leonard
Professor, English & Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies, Simmons University
suzanne.leonard@simmons.edu
Specializations:
American film and television studies
Feminist media studies
Women's literature, gender and cultural theory
Literary interpretation
20th and 21st century American literature
Course idea:
None specified
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David Sherman
Associate Professor, English, Brandeis University
Specializations:
Global modernism
Elegy and the politics of commemoration
Public sphere theory
Comedy
Literature in the criminal justice system
Literature and philosophy
Course idea:
Death and Feminism. A course on feminist and queer mortuary politics, including attention to literature, visual art, performance, and other expressive practices as sites of cultural intervention in the lives of the dead.
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Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Associate Professor, History, Boston College
Specializations:
Colonial Latin America
Early modern Spain
Colonial Central America
History of empire
Narrative and literature
Course idea:
Comparative Colonialism Criminality, Violence, Gender, and Legal Structures
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Christina Michaud
Senior Lecturer, Writing Program, Boston University
Master Lecturer, Writing
Specializations:
Literary analysis
Discourse analysis
Feminist intersectional parenting theory
Motherhood and breastfeeding
Sociolinguistics
Intersectionality and international students
Course idea:
Selfies (history of self-portraits in visual culture & literature, regulation of gender therein; visual cultures of the body; representation as a site of protest)
Christina Michaud has been a full-time instructor in the Writing Program since 2003. She teaches WR 097 and WR 098, the ESL writing classes mainly for first-year international students, as well as WR 100 and WR 150 sections on women’s studies. She has co-authored an ESL pronunciation textbook, a TESOL teacher-training book on goal-driven lesson planning, and numerous articles and presentations in the areas of TESOL, applied linguistics, and teacher training. Broadly, her research interests span composition and rhetoric, language and literacy, feminist literature, and gender studies.
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Nick Montfort
Professor and Poet, Comparative Media Studies and Writing, MIT
Nick Montfort develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations. Recent books include The Future and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (MIT Press) and several books of computational poetry: Hard West Turn, The Truelist, #!, the collaboration 2x6, and Autopia. He has worked to contribute to platform studies, critical code studies, and electronic literature.
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Specializations:
Digital Media
Course idea:
To guest lecture and discuss digital art & literary works that deal with gender.
Sari Edelstein
Associate Professor, English, University Massachusetts Boston
Specializations:
Nineteenth-century American literature
Age studies
Women writers
Print culture studies
Course idea:
Aging and/or girlhood from an intersectional and interdisciplinary perspective
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Sandy Alexandre
Professor of Law, Northeastern University
Specializations:
African-American Literature and Culture
African Diaspora Studies
Historicism
Digital Humanities
Course idea:
None specified
Sandy Alexandre’s research spans the late nineteenth-century to present-day black American literature and culture. Her first book, The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (Mississippi 2012), uses the history of American lynching violence as a framework to understand matters concerning displacement, property ownership, and the American pastoral ideology in a literary context. For example, in one chapter—on Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987)—she asks readers to consider the gendered implications of seeing lynching iconography itself as a form of owned property.
Sandy Alexandre is currently writing another book, Up From Chattels: Thinghood in an Ethics of Black Curation, which will take as its point of departure the premise that the former, enforced condition of black Americans as fungible merchandise can haunt, inform, and morally energize, to some extent, their very own relationships to material objects. This book will explore how some black Americans create what Alexandre calls a “culture of significance” with material objects. Using literary analysis, studying material artifacts, and engaging the work of black collectors, Alexandre argues that this improvised, curated, and eventually sacralized culture of subject-object relations constitutes an immanent critique of consumer capitalism. To think truly analytically about black-American material culture without resorting hastily to jeremiads about the so-called irreparable and vitiating influence of “bling bling” on that culture is to grant the possibility that, based on the sobering history and memory of black thinghood, some black Americans do engage in a practice of subject-object relations that can be, at once, political, ecological, spiritual and aesthetic. Overall, Alexandre’s work takes into serious account the ways in which an ecology comprised of people, places, and things can, at once, reverberate and attempt to negotiate the various instances of racial violence that mark the aggregate of U.S. history.